Being a high school student can be scary at times.
Each day this week, there has been threats toward specific high schools in District 6: On Monday, Northridge; Tuesday, Jefferson, Wednesday, Greeley Central. Monday
Northridge had classes canceled for the day due to the threat. Tuesday and Wednesday Jefferson and Greeley Central went on a secure status due to threats that circulated about their schools. Due to Jefferson’s lockdown, the CTE Center was shut down to outside students at the different high schools who take classes there.
Greeley West High School has been reinforcing their rules and will have an armed guard for the remainder of the school year. Principal Mr. Jeff Cranson said West rules rules have been reinforced in order to keep the school safe. Cranson has been active in trying to reinforce the rules. “My priority is trying to reinforce the rules we have and continue with the safety protocols we have in place, ” Cranson stated.
The process starts the minute students arrive on campus. As students enter the school, they are met with the ID scanner so if anything happened, the building knows who is here. “We use these to ensure the students’ safety and will continue to use these strategies,” Cranson said.
West hopes to avoid some of the chaos experienced by Northridge students this week. Northridge senior Juan Pelico Reyes explained his experience with this situation being a student at the first school to experience the threat. “When I first saw the Snapchat of the threat, I thought it wasn’t true. When I got to school that day they canceled it at the last minute. This made me scared because I realized it was true,” Pelico Reyes said. “When I got home it was still scary because it made me not want to go to school.”
Northridge senior Rosalinda Bocanegra also thought the threat wasn’t serious. “That morning I had my Aims classes, but when I saw the threat I thought it was fake. When I told my mom, none of us knew what to do so we tried to call the school and couldn’t get through to the amount of people calling. It was scary because then I realized how serious it was that they had to cancel school,” Bocanegra stated.
Back at Greeley West, senior and student body president Makai Mireles feels that safety matters at the buliding. “We just need to make sure that the students feel safe here,” Mireles said. “The security guards are helping; also the extra care that everyone is taking. As long as people know they are safe, then that will help,” Mireles stated.
